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Musician and academic, Matthew Noone on some of his favourite in film, books, music, podcasts, food and perfume.

Artists and academics working in the realm of sleep, join Luke Clancy to explore the politics of sleep, from the sleep gap, to sleep and the city, and the emancipatory work of dreams, with a panel featuring Black Power Naps, Dr. Cressida Heyes, Peter Power and Dr. Antonio Zaadra.

Documentary filmmaker, Tadhg O'Sullivan steps into the world of fiction, with his latest, The Swallow, starring Brenda Fricker as a painter recalling lost love.

The experiences of the Polish diaspora in Belfast offer a key to knowing displacement and exile around the world, in a new song cycle from composer, Anselm McDonnell.

Seeking the non-human hidden in the human voice, with Swedish experimental vocalist and composer, Sofia Jernberg.

In the latest of her series on the meanings of amateurism in the online world, writer Joanna Walsh wrestles with the kitschness of AI, and the AI-ness of kitsch.

Dublin classicist and debut novelist behind Glorious Exploits, Ferdia Lennon shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Why the grain of the human voice is as important as ever in a world of AI music; the musical multiverse of British composer, Basil Kirchin; surprise celebrity in the world of autism tiktok; and improv improv at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance 30th birthday celebrations.

Author and columnist, Eleanor Flegg is documenting on Tiktok the everyday challenges and triumphs of an adult with recently diagnosed autism.

Need some sonic nutrition? It's time you added to your playlists the rainbow magic of unclassifiable British composer, Basil Kirchin, suggests performance poet, Caoimhe Lavelle.

Interdisciplinary improvisations at the The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, marrying, among other collabs, contemporary dancers with a piper.

AI is the Grain of the Voice: In her latest exploration of the impacts of AI technologies, Jennifer Walshe AI encounters the potentials of voice cloning.